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Android Programming: Pushing the Limits by [Erik Hellman]

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Unleash the power of the Android OS and build the kinds of brilliant, innovative apps users love to use

If you already know your way around the Android OS and can build a simple Android app in under an hour, this book is for you. If you’re itching to see just how far you can push it and discover what Android is really capable of, it’s for you. And if you’re ready to learn how to build advanced, intuitive, innovative apps that are a blast to use, this book is definitely for you.

From custom views and advanced multi-touch gestures, to integrating online web services and exploiting the latest geofencing and activity recognition features, ace Android developer, Erik Hellman, delivers expert tips, tricks and little-known techniques for pushing the Android envelope so you can:

Optimize your components for the smoothest user experience possible
Create your own custom Views
Push the boundaries of the Android SDK
Master Android Studio and Gradle
Make optimal use of the Android audio, video and graphics APIs
Program in Text-To-Speech and Speech Recognition
Make the most of the new Android maps and location API
Use Android connectivity technologies to communicate with remote devices
Perform background processing
Use Android cryptography APIs
Find and safely use hidden Android APIs
Cloud-enable your applications with Google Play Services
Distribute and sell your applications on Google Play Store

Learn how to unleash the power of Android and transform your apps from good to great in Android Programming: Pushing the Limits.

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October 18, 2013
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Unleash the power of the Android OS and build the kinds of brilliant, innovative apps users love to use

If you already know your way around the Android OS and can build a simple Android app in under an hour, this book is for you. If you’re itching to see just how far you can push it and discover what Android is really capable of, it’s for you. And if you’re ready to learn how to build advanced, intuitive, innovative apps that are a blast to use, this book is definitely for you.

From custom views and advanced multi-touch gestures, to integrating online web services and exploiting the latest geofencing and activity recognition features, ace Android developer, Erik Hellman, delivers expert tips, tricks and little-known techniques for pushing the Android envelope so you can:

Optimize your components for the smoothest user experience possible

Optimize your components for the smoothest user experience possible
Create your own custom Views
Push the boundaries of the Android SDK
Master Android Studio and Gradle
Make optimal use of the Android audio, video and graphics APIs
Program in Text-To-Speech and Speech Recognition
Make the most of the new Android maps and location API
Use Android connectivity technologies to communicate with remote devices
Perform background processing
Use Android cryptography APIs
Find and safely use hidden Android APIs
Cloud-enable your applications with Google Play Services
Distribute and sell your applications on Google Play Store

Learn how to unleash the power of Android and transform your apps from good to great in Android Programming: Pushing the Limits.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Unleash the power of the Android OS and build the kinds of brilliant, innovative apps users love to use

If you already know your way around the Android OS and can build a simple Android app in under an hour, this book is for you. If you’re itching to see just how far you can push it and discover what Android is really capable of, it’s for you. And if you’re ready to learn how to build advanced, intuitive, innovative apps that are a blast to use, this book is definitely for you.

From custom views and advanced multi-touch gestures, to integrating online web services and exploiting the latest geofencing and activity recognition features, ace Android developer, Erik Hellman, delivers expert tips, tricks and little-known techniques for pushing the Android envelope so you can:

Optimize your components for the smoothest user experience possible

Optimize your components for the smoothest user experience possible
Create your own custom Views
Push the boundaries of the Android SDK
Master Android Studio and Gradle
Make optimal use of the Android audio, video and graphics APIs
Program in Text-To-Speech and Speech Recognition
Make the most of the new Android maps and location API
Use Android connectivity technologies to communicate with remote devices
Perform background processing
Use Android cryptography APIs
Find and safely use hidden Android APIs
Cloud-enable your applications with Google Play Services
Distribute and sell your applications on Google Play Store

Learn how to unleash the power of Android and transform your apps from good to great in Android Programming: Pushing the Limits.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00G25D7ZM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (October 18, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 18, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8979 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 435 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1118717376

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Robin T. Wernick

Very Advanced Android Programming: Hold On to Your Hat

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2014

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I have eight other Android books and only one has the depth of this book. Of the 20 chapters in this book 15 are devoted to advanced application operations. This is not a book for beginners, this is a book for the adventurers that want to bring every possible feature of Android out into the light and see how their device can perform. This territory is for the prepared mind. If you want to know more about beginning to use Eclipse to build Android programs or how to do elegant widget design you must read one of those other introductory books.

There is enough material in the 400 pages of this book to keep an experimenter working on upgrading his applications for months. You can try out multi-threading and running simultaneous applications that talk to each other and the web. Use the NDK to find the maximum performance of your device or open up new interfaces and automatically record actions and the resulting computed data records into the database. Link your device to others and form a mobile computing cluster or provide a six way video conference between different offices across the country. Even use one device as an aerial platform controller and video observer for another device in the hand of its pilot. You could even try using one device as a submarine controller and connect it to a remote control device using acoustic signals with the help of digital filters.

The phrase "smart phone" is simply a euphemism for a multi-core computer with advanced sensor arrays. This book will open your eyes to the ways that these devices can be employed in support of modern technology. What kind of application would allow a mobile super-computer to come into existence? How many phones would be needed, 50, 5000, 500000? Not a problem, a smart programmer could get all this computing power for free.

I'm thinking of integrating my house with my car into my phone. Then I'm going to connect "Jeeves" to my home and office computers just so I don't have to leave myself spread across four different contact and document applications. I'm going to build a background trapdoor into my community website so I can get service notices and communicate with my community group seamlessly. This book is going to make it possible to upgrade my entire social situation. What might it do for your life? Let your mind be the only limit to your life with this book.

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Android Programming: Pushing the Limits

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2015

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As with another three star review (an unfortunately short review which didn't thwart my buying it), I just find this book lacking and tried hard to explain what I feel from it without writing a book myself via a review...

With chapter 10 for instance, the examples are a quick introduction to android junit and the discussion on them are very brief. It is so brief that you better be paying strict attention to every word and even then he misses some highly important things such as Android wants all test method names to start with 'test' - he shows this in the examples but doesn't explain it so you'll be scratching your head wondering what's going on when you put something else (you have know way of knowing if that's just his way of naming). OR Android's extends ActivityUnitTestCase showing a check for an OnClickListener but not explaining that doing so is only not null if its starting from a normal Activity and not starting from a FragmentActivity. These are things that ruin this book. His lack of explanation forces you to look elsewhere for answers or to do trial-and-error.

Sadly, the chapters to me feel much like bullet points just to fit another thing into this book. With a little more time the author could have put together something that was great instead of simply being OK. But, I imagine the author couldn't wait to finish it. From what I can tell, the kindle version hasn't been updated as there's a class in chapter 17 that seems to be missing a method in the latest API.

There are other numerous issues I have with this book such as in chapter 17 the author mentions code for file uploading yet does not mention what language was in mind on the server end. PHP resulted in error 403 forbidden when in fact the issue wasn't server side but the android code - something I knew had to be as I had connected to PHP before.

The end result is that I CANNOT recommend this book for the asking price. Maybe $10 at most and maybe not even that. This book is just OK at three stars as I like it a little more than not liking it. I was hoping this book would fill in some missing blanks but apparently I'm left with filling those blanks in mostly from other ways.

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Boston Jim

A Lot Covered, But Not Much Depth

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2017

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Somewhat dated in January 2017, but a lot of the content still applies. It's a odd mix of advanced and basic concepts, the latter which should be already familiar to the audience reading this book. A lot of material is covered, but it's skimmed to a great extent. The example code is mostly bit and pieces without supporting resource files so it's tough to build the code examples. I got about 1/3rd through the book before moving on.

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Neil C. Obremski

Experienced coders take note, especially if you're new to Android/Java

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2016

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This is how you write a competent tech book, folks! I've only read a couple chapters so far but that's because they immediately arm and inspire me to try things out. Erik speaks directly without talking down or worshiping the reader. I've never been deeply involved with Java but I'm an experienced programmer and this gets me the knowledge quickly and efficiently. Just what I wanted! I only wish this had been the first book I bought on Android.

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darklord

Nice book for anyone who want to become advanced android developer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 4, 2014

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If you have programmed in Android before and heading for the advanced level, this is the right book for you!

(1) Up to date, introduces you the newest thing in Android.
(2) It doesn't use redundant paragraphs. Clearly explain a topic within a couple of pages.
(3) Many of the knowledges come from real world developing experience, you won't get them from Android documents.

I learned a lot from this book!

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SMV

New book in the price of a used one..

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2020

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I purchased a used one but it doesn’t look so.. It should be a new book from the warehouse 👍

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Tito

book is fine and in very new condition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2015

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Fast shipping, book is fine and in very new condition, however may be very outdated for today Android standards published in 2014.
I just got it only for reference.

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Sondos Rayes

Good book for advanced programmers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2015

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Good book for advanced programmers, it touches a lot of features, some are in details others are just an overview. But good book to have in general.

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Exiled-Edik

Good but not overly advanced.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 19, 2014

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It's a good book but advanced I am not so sure of.

Granted it is full of useful tips, but the actual technical content should be understandable by somebody even with limited (a few months) Android development experience, the level being about on par with the API documentation (but this is better written).

As for the enum hints, welcome but even now the Kernel team prefer Ints... simply far more gc efficient (not to say endemic throughout AOSP).

Definitely one of the good books out there and very readable.

Recommended.

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This is a great book. I will strongly recommend this book for ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 12, 2016

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This is a great book. I will strongly recommend this book for someone who wants to get to Advanced level. The book contains crucial information that will help developers build a powerful application. This is a book you wouldn't want to miss. Excellent choice!

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Vincent Bevia

A must for an Android library!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 15, 2015

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A very complete book! Excellent for those of us with some miles in our "Android pedometer". Highly recommendable.

Heinrich Göbl

Äußerst empfehlenswertes Android Buch für Fortgeschrittene

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 13, 2014

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Android ist eine Welt, die vermutlich niemand bis in alle Tiefen ergründen wird. Deshalb können selbst sehr dicke Bücher nur wenig mehr bieten als die Online-Quellen, weil fast alle bei Adam und Eva beginnen. "Yet another Pro book" bringt keinen Nutzen, wenn damit immer wieder auch die Anfänger abgeholt werden sollen!

Dieses Buch hat zwar auch 416 Seiten, hier wird aber zur Freude des Lesers nicht zum hundertsten Mal versucht, einen Einstieg in Android zu bieten. Alles ist sehr knackig und kurz beschrieben und beinahe auf jeder Seite findet man wertvolle Informationen, die man bisher nicht kannte. Das Buch eignet sich sehr gut, von vorne bis hinten durchgelesen zu werden, aber auch als Nachschlagewerk, wenn man die Themen schon genau zuordnen kann. Ich behaupte mal, dass hier auch Android-Füchse ihr Wissen für die Praxis erweitern können, die mit so ziemlich allen Wassern gewaschen sind.

Für Leute, die mit Android erst beginnen, würde ich das Buch nicht empfehlen. Aber unbedingt vormerken, sobald man sich einigermaßen sattelfest fühlt!
Sicher lohnt sich "Pushing the Limits" auch für Architekten, welche die Möglichkeiten der Android Platform kennenlernen wollen. Was gibt es alles, was ist möglich? Ausreichend, um mitreden und entscheiden zu können, dabei aber kurzweilig genug, um bei der Lektüre nicht einzuschlafen.

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sehr enttäuschend

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 3, 2015

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ich bin es ja schon gewohnt das bücher nicht meinen ansprüchen genügen, aber dieses hier ist so eine frechheit, da muss ich sogar mal eine rezension schreiben.

die stellen die ich bisher gelesen habe entsprechen der google dokumentation, dazu der link darauf und ein paar codeschnippsel. das buch schuppst einen etwas in die richtung was android kann, mehr nicht.

die "limits muss man dann selber "pushen" - das buch hilft dazu nicht.
ich finds ja ok bzw richtig das nicht alles von vorne erklärt wird, davon hab ich genug, aber mal etwas ins detail zu gehen was sinn macht und was nicht, wo die vorteile liegen etc - das was drinsteht geht nicht über die google dokumentation hinaus.

absolut nicht zu empfehlen. schade das ich es nicht mehr zurückgeben kann.

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